Hewlett Packard is poised to split into two companies: a $56 billion PC and printer business and a $56 billion enterprise computing, services and software business, according to a Wall Street Journal report.

Hewlett-Packard has unveiled its Chromebook competitor in the Stream notebook, running on Windows 8.1. Partners say the new HP Stream will be a worthy competitor to Chromebooks currently on the market, as it is competitively priced and backed by Microsoft software.

Ingram Micro has over the past two months reached agreements with 65 channel partners to resell Chromebooks, which should cost $5,200 less than a traditional laptop or desktop over the lifetime of a device.

Apple refutes reports that the Shellshock bug is a threat to OS X users. Experts say the vulnerability could rival the impact of Heartbleed, and it's on the vendors and companies with webservers to get ahead of the issue.